@@Ashley__Rose The rhythm his heart was in V-TAC (Ventricular Tachycardia), will degrade to V-FIB (Ventricular Fibrillation) which is a lethal, but shockable arrhythmia, so our poor friend is about to ride the lightning. and there are types of welding done with electricity.
Yknow, I actually had this happen. The paramedics gave the "hmmm" of someone DEEPLY confused by the situation. "Well, everything says you're having a heart attack, but if you were, everything we've given you should have helped by now sooooo...lets just go ahead and get you to the hospital" Turns out I have pretty awful chronic Pericarditis, and every time i have an EEG I have to tell them or the results look like a coloring book done by a 2yr old
I had a fever that quickly spiked to dangerous levels while I was on break. I went from just being miserable to not being able to walk up stairs and hallucinating within half an hr. They still wanted me to finish my shift. Never seen a paramedic go pale quite that fast. Turned out I had bery bad walking pneumonia with complications and shouldn't have even been conscious days before thanks to a broken rib that I thought I had only cracked and was ignoring (there's not much they can do for cracked ribs anyway, figured I'd save myself the 14hrs waiting for a doctor to see me in the er).
I was electrocuted at work once and my entire arm went numb, and my boss insisted I keep on working for an additional 20-25 minutes afterward until I could be replaced.
@k4fr366 maybe sepsis infection? I know when I had a kidney infection that turned sepsis do to the antibiotics not working and it spreading I techincally had 2 kidney infections in 1 week and my body was shutting down. I was in hospital for well over a month and couldn't even walk to bathroom.
I had kind of a reverse of that. I do IT security consulting and we had a new client to fly out to. We got an email over the weekend that he had to push the start time on Monday from 9:00 to 10:00 for a doctor's appointment. When we got there, we learned it was for a follow-up from the heart attack he'd had *the previous Thursday*. He didn't tell us about it because he didn't want us to have to change our schedule and rebook travel. We told him that we would gladly have changed it up so he could rest a bit. Our billable hours aren't more important than the client's life. (Besides, if he dies, we might have to start the sales process over from scratch.)
@@TheGraveyardWriter shit dude. I'd personally tell them to fuck off but I know every situation is different. That sucks. Sorry you have an employer like that
I experienced a vtach once. 250+ bpm for 3-5 min before a doctor punched me in the chest. It felt like my whole body was vibrating. Fun times and luckily no lasting issues.
It's called a Precordial Chest Thump. It is usually done from a distance of approximately 20 centimeters to the lower third of the sternum. Last I knew it was a recommended initial treatment by the AHA in ventricular tachycardia and for ventricular fibrillation. There are mixed results from studies on this. In some reports it has also been stated to be useful in asystole. As a note: There is actually a phenomenon called Commotio cordis in which a hard blow to the chest at the right moment, and right location, stops the heart. It is most commonly seen in sports, such as someone taking a baseball to the sternum. This causes ventricular fibrillation. It is usually fatal if not treated very quickly with CPR and the proper use of an AED. (VF is a shockable rhythm.) This is likely the source of the idea of the "death touch/fist of death/death punch" in martial arts. The more you know... (Yes, I am a nerd and an EMT. lol)
Same. It is no joke. I have stage 4 cirrhosis and my mom had a mile long list of things for me to do. I went to the store bought a bunch of monsters and red bulls. I would drink a monster redbull mixed every Am and every 4 hours while i was doing this work. On the 6th day my PCP(my Dr lives 2 houses from my mom) he said what are u drinking. Long story short ..after 6 days of drinking those i was in literally kidney failure. I thought my back hurt cuz i was working hard. Needless to say i am done with them drinks.
Yeap. I had to take week off work because the muscles in my back knotted so badly that it was pulling my spine out of alignment. Was like for two days before for I went to a chiropractor (at my R/N MiL’s suggestion). Got a medical leave note from the chiropractor for 7 days off work and light work for a week after. I worked in a ice cream shop where i had to haul multiple gallons of ice cream around eight hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Plus having to put together an ice cream Machine with parts that weighed almost a third my weight. (I’m five ft 3in and 105lbs). Boss did not provide any kind of back brace for lifting heavy objects. Three days into my medical leave, my boss tried to call me in… while I was at the chiropractor again. My chiropractor ripped him a new one over the phone. Same boss also got pissed when i would not do all the usual stuff at work (which led to my back issue to begin with) for that next week. I told him he could go call the chiropractor. For those wondering why I didn’t go to the hospital: the hospital would have been SO Much more expensive. Also they would have given me muscle relaxers that may have worked and wouldn’t have realigned my spine. The chiropractor performed acupuncture, heat therapy and minor electro therapy to unknot my back muscles then very gently worked to realign my spine. Four visits to him ran me about $200 where i would have paid thousands at a hospital
@@wolflinggon5664 Yeah sounds about right. I had minor surgery on my foot and could barely walk. It was my day off, and I limped in to hand my doctors note to management and when I asked to speak with one of them, another manager spoke for me, which pissed me off. Told them that I surgery on my foot not my mouth and could speak for myself. Then I told them that I wouldnt be in for a week. Worked at Walmart at the time in the Electronics' Department. Holy shit, the mess I came back too almost made me quit but I had some bills that needed to be paid
I fondly remember going to the doctors one time thinking I had strep throat. Doctor walks in takes a look at my throat and says "Ah...That explains it. You don't have strep--You have Bronchitis." with the most nonchalant and driest delievery ever. He looks at me and says "Are ya working tomorrow?" I nod and say "Yeah." And then he just says "Yeah I wouldn't. You working Sunday?" I nodded once again and he was like "Maybe sunday..."
@@wolflinggon5664I imagined that the ice cream tubs were heavy (mostly gallons of frozen processed milk, and a couple tons of steel [is that metaphorical or literal, how much do those tubs weigh?] duh) But damn, I did not expect Ice Cream Man to be in the list of the kind of jobs where you need to do eight to twelve kinds of CrossFit to not be shredded in the torn-to-pieces kinda way.
I remember getting a tilt table test, and my heart rate skyrocketed so fast it set off the emergency alarm. I'll never forget the tech's face when she looked up at it and went "....hm!"
I had tilt table test too, but I just passed out on mine 😅 The tech was quite apologetic/panicked but I remember slurring out "it's good data!", which calmed them down 😂
@@mike4402it took about exactly a decade from me first seeking help for my heart to now finally getting help with it... it's so annoying how doctors don't really listen. I'd get episodes of super high heart rates that'll go on for 30 sec to ~2hrs, but bc no monitor could catch it I was dismissed. Recording the episodes on the EKG on my watch is what helped. Try to see if the HeartWatch app helps, and some sleep tracker where it can track your heart + breathing, and try to catch it with an EKG if possible. You've likely done this but if you haven't, highly suggest.
and if they can't, we are going to need to guilt trip the other employees into gifting him their PTO, instead of us just taking the hit. Really need a fifth vacation home, ya know?
Employer when he doesn’t show up the next day: “call him and tell him he’s fired for not having PTO to cover the absence because he’s only worked for us two months and employees don’t start to accrue PTO until they’ve been here at least four months. Then, when he files, tell unemployment he quit because he chose not to come to work.”
@@jellifish9389 Capitalism was even worse in the past. Working-class made a lot of gains for safety. The whole system is still generally exploitive and shitty, but workers now at least don’t have it as bad as workers did in the Industrial Revolution.
@@jellifish9389 Oh please. Was communism better? Socialism? Mercantilism? Feudalism? Greedy bosses have existed ever since Chief Ragrag tossed Thugthug out of the cave and told him to come back with a deer or not at all.
"Is he going to be able to go back to work ?" "No, he needs to rest for 4 weeks after that slurry energy drink and if you give him another one of those.. You will be arrested for murder."
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki for real, I have known bosses that would bail out their employees just so they'd be on the job site. Death would just be an inconvenience, they'd find a way around it.
No, he probably wouldn't actually fire you, but he'd in no uncertain terms tell you that he needs you to work, so you can't take off for the appointment and instead schedule it on a day you don't have work or after hours with the threat of firing you.
I mean, these types of people can try, but as long as you get evidence showing no reason from the past (as we don't know if he's gotten in trouble before), like written warnings in your file and you went to the proper people with even evidence you were having to go to the doctor, it'd blow up in the person's face
I was told this by my cardiologist and I’ve remembered it ever since “The heart is a muscle, you should work to help it get stronger. But you shouldn’t work it till failure.”
ems showed up hooked me up told me my heart rate was 250-270 bpm and my blood pressure was apocalypse levels the look in his face before he radioed the hospital was priceless
Fr i had a nurse look at me like that at a blood bank once lmao. Had just gotten out of gym and drank a rockstar energy 3 hrs before... 230/250 is apparently not good for a 5'5" 160lbs 16 y/o with a high possibility of having heart proplems later 🤷🏼♂
Damn guys im 180 pounds 6ft maybe more, 15yo oldie. And i had the same problem😂 i drank a monster energy drink 3 days in a row before the test while walkin to school at fresh hours and working out, even tho it was extra cold outside😂😂😂. If i recall correctly my bpm was 220 and pulse 100, overally i wasn't feeling bad nor shitty. My ass just was tired half a week into the month😂❤
@@jordanhunter3375 No, what’s happening is that there is something in the “pre-work out slurry” that he was given that is driving his heart into a crazy fast rate (normal heart rate : 60-100; his is in excess of 200). Jason has described a Ventricular Tachychardia (V-Tach) and one of the ways to treat this; especially when a patient is unstable, is to defibrillate. That means putting two electrical conducting pads on your chest and running a current somewhere between 200-1000 volts, hoping it will “reset” your heart and let it beat normally again. Hence the pun on “welding”. I’m not sure about the back pain but I think it’s meant to be an atypical symptom of V-Tach. Most people with complain of chest or generalised symptoms.
OK first of all ventricle tachycardia is not a heart attack it is a elevated more than elevated heart rate which they give you a combination of different heart medication’s to slow your heart rate down to a regular beat
And kidney and bladder stones and failure, liver issues etc, etc Be careful what you put into your body. It determines what your body is willing to do for you!! Love y'all ❤❤❤❤❤
@@Mygg_JeagerI think what he meant by that was, that this dudes heart is basically about to move so fast, that the heat energy it puts out is gonna cause it to start glowing red-hot... kind of like a welding rod. The faster something moves, the more heat energy is generated.
Got a call for a "Cardiac Arrest." We arrive on scene and the guy who called walks out perfectly fine. I ask him "Whats going on? why did you call 911?" He tells me he thinks hes having a heart attack. I ask him " have you had a heart attack before?" he says no. I ask " how do you know youre having a heart attack?" He tells me "Because after I did Coke, I started feeling my heart beat real fast...." Ah....very well, lets get you on the monitor.
I did something similar the other day. Called 911 after doing molly and smoking a blunt. Couldn't feel my heart rate and was sweating all over, so I called. My buddy pulled me out the car and poured some cold water on my head, and I kind of snapped out of it. Had to call them back and ask them to not come, still wondering if I'm gonna get charged with misuse of the 911 system, but yeah. I'm an idiot
I had a health teacher tell a story about when he was in college. He had stayed up all night studying for an exam, so to stay awake for it, he binged a bunch of caffeinated drinks. In the middle of the exam, his heart stopped and he had to go to the hospital.
I caffeine-binge-studied for a final in college. During the test I lost my sense of time. I answered 3 questions in 12 seconds, then stared at the next one for 5 minutes before I realized I wasn't reading it.
Had a buddy I Iraq shotgun three 5hour energy and two monsters. Mid patrol he collapses and the medic can't find a pulse because his heart was beating so fast you couldn't feel it in a vein. Medic gets a monitor on him and then you hear a quiet "holy fuck". Medic jabs him with morphine and we have to carry him back to the trucks and we drove straight to Balad because we knew our aid station couldn't handle this. Long story short, 5hour energy was banned in our battalion and only water could be used on patrol. We got inspections before patrol for "contraband". Guy lived by the way.
"Well sir, your hear WAS in the front, but some of those beeps we're hearing are actually your heart bouncing all around like a pinball because whatever you drank is not something anyone should ever drink."
Dude I worked with used to drink monsters like water and had this same thing happen. will never forget the instant change of demeanor of the ems when she checked him.
When my husband was in EMT school, they taught them "the face". The "holy crap this isn't good" panic look to be the "you'll (probably) be fine" fake look :)
My partner's dad is a doctor who's normal take on medical stuff is "ah, you're fine. Take an ibuprofen and sleep it off." But sometimes he gets all smiley and relaxed and says stuff like "oh! What kind of pain?" And that's when you know something is wrong. So bear in mind the face might work on the general public, but it won't fool people who are close to you.
@@eldricgrubbidge6465 yep, and it doesn't work well on people who know about it. I called that look on a paramedics face and then told him not to worry, my blood pressure is normally that. At which point I freaked him out after he realized I couldn't see the monitor and was going solely off the look on his face. He'd started to explain to me that it wasn't normal blood pressure until he paused mid word, looked between me and the monitor a few times, and then asked "What's your normal blood pressure?". Like "100/60, so 90/55 ain't far off". Apparently I was only 2 points off on one number and dead on for the other. He relaxed and continued on with whatever I was in the ambulance for.
Yeah, I remember when my tachycardia kicked in once while I was in school. I got sent to the nurse's office, the one who saw me being one of those "don't come to me unless you're actively dying" sorts. She took my pulse and her whole demeanor changed. After a minute, she looked over at the other nurse and said "I can't get a proper count, his pulse is too fast." Needless to say, I was off to the hospital very quickly.
I was at lunch in first grade and the girl in front of me SAW my heart beating fast and told the monitor. She was no nonsense and thought she was freaking out over nothing, and was rolling her eyes when she put her hand on my chest for like 3 seconds... then bodily lifted me out my seat and ran to the office. Fun, isn't it? I had SVT.
At least y’all got treatment I got told to suck it up when I had fluid in my lungs, my buddy was watching ice packs melt on my head in a matter of minutes and yet it was no big deal to the nurses.
As a "Brittle" type 1 diabetic, who also had too many of /those/ types of nurse on shift from elementary to high school.. they are at times the utter worst. especially cuz I'd have to go to the office /a lot/ that was part of the brittle in brittle t1 diabetic.. I was also prone to nosebleeds that would take ages to stop regardless of how much pressure one put in the "right spot" (they would say i was not holding it right) like I get it they prob get a bunch of kids trying to ditch class but I was one'a those odd ducks that actually enjoyed school (not that they would believe me). I still remember going to nurse in high school once with a extremely stubborn 3.2 blood sugar (Canadian diabetic #. multiply by 18 to get USA. it's really low, some pass out at 4.5) an she didn't believe me till I showed her the kit, and then made me take another reading in front of her... only then was it get the glucagon kit and a trip to the hospital cuz the kit was outdated and juice boxes I'd downed where doing absolutely nothing.
My heartrate gets to 180 because of my tachycardia i have to take beta blockers for it. Whenever paramedics or hospital stsff see my pulse above 115 they freak out to which i say thats normal for me
Kid I went to high school with died this way. He was funny as hell, wish he was still around. Always be aware of what you're putting into your body and what it can do.
I took ecstasy and literally was sent home just to have more seizures with a bpm 245 and they were like whatever 😅 it may have been fake molly but also i have health issues and ecstasy now is being cut with bath salts and meth often
Those power drinks are no joke. They make your heart rate go up if you drink a lot of them. I lost a good friend to him drinking several power drinks at once.
That or hearing the medic exclaim “oh, sh!t!” After hooking you up to said monitor while you’re in the middle of telling the nice EMT lady that you’re cold… Idk what happened after that- I was told I was 2 BP points away from not having a BP, which I suppose explains the whole being cold, losing consciousness and “oh sh!t” comment from the medic. On the bright side, I was too sick to care and used to being too sick to care @ the time.
An old coworker of mine legit had a heart attack on shift in front of a bunch of customers and our bosses tried to call the hospital seeing when he would be able to come back to work 😂😂😂😂 I felt this video in my soul
I told someone that I was going to drink half of a 5 Hour Energy. She almost yells at me, "Don't drink those! They're dangerous! My niece drank THREE of them and ended up in the hospital!" My friend overheard this and interjects, "Yeah, if you're stupid enough to drink three of them, you deserve to go to the hospital."
Three 5 Hour Energies is 600 mg caffeine (720 if they were extra-strength) which is a lot, but not "need to go to the hospital" levels, at least for most people. I once had twice that (in caffeine pills) within 2 hours back in undergrad, and I was . . . pretty weird for a while, but not in any sort of distress. Of course, my caffeine tolerance was pretty nuts at that point . . .
@@logitimate 1800mg of caffeine is definitely way more than enough to be in the "need to go to the hospital range". up to 400mg a day is considered safe, and "The FDA estimates toxic effects, like seizures, can be observed with rapid consumption of around 1,200 milligrams of caffeine"
@@picgmr1575 I took 1200 mg (twice 600), not 1800, and as for the FDA estimate, that undoubtedly depends heavily on tolerance (and lean body mass, for that matter).
The hardest I've ever pushed my heart was 180. I was climbing a fucking mountain and weighed over 300 pounds. How much caffeine did they put in that poor man?
“And this is called a canon event. You’ll gain your spidey-powers through all of that energy drink. We are forbidden by the universe to interfere. Sorry.” He nods, “Yes, sir. He may go back to work.”
My resting heart rate normally was under 50 BPM before I got Leukemia. I'm in a doctor's office that's a floor beneath the floor I get my chemo. This female nurse isn't allowing us to leave because " No, we need to get these reading. " ... She didn't know my Dad is a paramedic and is intimately aware with how my body performed medically before I got Leukemia, so she hooks me up to a monitor... and it says my BPM is 195, I'm feeling nauseous and dizzy and my skin is feeling like it's tightening down around me. So, this lady keeps going " No, it's fine. Stay here. I said it's fine. " Dad gets pissed off, stands up and says " Don't you try to feed me that bullshit. I'm an ex medic and that is NOT OKAY. You can hurry up and get this done in the next five minutes or we're getting ahold of his doctor. " So she dragged her feet, five minutes went by and she peeks into the room to say " It'll be another ten. " Dad was furious. Called the doctor just upstairs and said what's happening. He heard what my BPM was and screamed " WHAT!? GET HIM UP HERE NOW! " over the phone loud enough I could hear him while laid out on the little exam table barely able to stay conscious. We get up there and turns out I was in the danger zone for dehydration and blood loss from chemo. I had to get two transfusions and a full bag of fluids, plus a shot of morphine for the pain because my skin was beginning to burn and I didn't have my painkillers on me, so the doctor goes " Get him a full dose of morphine, now. " ( Normally he started out with half but everybody there knew me pretty well and that I had a high tolerance to opiates and other forms of pain control. Kind of obvious someone's not faking pain for a fix when their heart rate is skyrocketing from their body trying to keep up with all the rapidly dwindling resources. ) And hoooo boy was my doctor furious. My doctor was a good elderly man. Good at his job. He's no longer a doctor, but... still not gonna say his name because I actually kept in touch with him after he treated my cancer because we considered him family. - That guy was so furious that " his nephew " ( Because I jokingly called him " Uncle Doctor *His name* " and he insisted I just call him Uncle *his name* and he just called me his nephew. ) - that I suddenly didn't see that nurse working on the fourth floor or any floor for that matter. Legit think he got her fired for nearly putting me in the dirt. Frankly? Good. She was working at a Children's hospital. Imagine if her stupidity got a child killed rather than an 18 year old being treated as a pediatric case that at least was able to hang in there for a fair bit longer. That scares me idiots like that person sometimes somehow bumble through nursing school.
@@brookeggleston9314 Excellent point that often is overlooked. I've known several nurses personally. I've known some professionally. Yes, it can be a terrible job for varied reasons & many work very hard &/or are very caring...but that doesn't equate to: actually knows what they're doing. I can think of exactly TWO that were amazing. The rest, in a word, nope. Having said all that: Pretty much every profession has good & bad & all in between.
When I became CNA on one of me first shifts during the education (in Germany it switches between going to school and working in a hospital/nursing home). Most of the nurses on this floor were rude and when I did my round to measure the vital signs of the patients one men had a Puls of 120 or 140. I wasn’t sure if I should report it or not. I didn’t want to be yelled at for disturbing them, cause I wasn’t sure if it would be that big of a deal. Like one hour or later, I checked again and it was the same. This time I went to one nurse and she contacted the doctor. I was scared that because I didn’t tell them right away he might suffer the consequences. But as it never came up that his Puls wasn’t normal, I guess he is fine. Later we got taught in school more about vital signs but this situation taught me to always tell other medical staff when something concerns me about a patient.
@@larafranke1802 I was speaking with a friend Just This Morning about how terrible it is that we have to be afraid to "do good" or "the right thing" for fear of over-the-top negativity.
@@user-wr3vt8uq4s energy drinks and a heart rate over 200 is more likely cardiac in nature than kidney stones. The rate means the heart is likely to have some ischaemia, causing pain. This can be chest pain, shoulder, arm, jaw, backache or even stomach
I wish more people knew how often back pain has links to cardiac problems. Like we sometimes learn about it wrt women having heart attacks but it's not just women this can happen to.
The “hm” is the exact sound my doctor made before carefully choosing his words as he told my my right kidney was “very angry” which actually meant “twice its normal size about to burst with infection and you have to get into emergency surgery or you will go septic within the hour”
I worked in an office with an extremely cautious and conscientious co-worker. I asked for a ride home due to asthma and bronchitis. She summoned the AMBULANCE instead!! I did not even realize how sick I was😯!
Can confirm from too Many drugs on an 18th birthday. All I can say is the words “pain” and “shitty” don’t do it nearly enough justice. Wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
@@tessamarie8698 See, I saw someone say the other day "Ya know, I *would* wish these things on my worst enemy," and then gave the reasoning behind it, and... after seeing that video, I tend to agree. I don't know if a parasite can have a bad day, but I would one hundo percent wish that kind of pain on malaria! (John from VlogBrothers was talking about TB, was a funny video)
My neighbor complained of back pain after using pre workout powder for a while and came over to tell me (any doctor or anyone in the medical field you know when people know your job ask random questions about their health) and I told him he should stop using it, get an appointment with a cardiologist and then make sure his kidneys are alright. He then told me “it’s not kidney pain I’ve had kidney issues in the past” I stood there slack jawed. People are so weird sometimes. He did eventually go to the ER because I called EMS because he drank his usual caffeine death smoothie but his body was fed up, went into VT thankfully he works out in his garage with it open and I was checking the mail.
@@private-local-enemy yeah it’s the same logic I’ve dealt with when I had patents that said “it’s impossible to get into a crash I’ve already been in one!” When I begged my patient to stop drunk driving after he drove himself to the ER because of chest pain and he was stone cold drunk and having an anxiety attack from the antidepressants he took while drinking -.- some people can’t be helped I’m sorry to hear about your parents but I love your sense of humor. Dark humor is the way us healthcare workers cope! You either are one or you’d be a great one you got the stomach for it!
Yeah happens to me a lot. Actually got told by my nerologist to get it looked at (adhd meds can impact heart rate and as he put it better to be told your over reacting than wind up dead) and turns out I have non serious things like extra PVCs that are not constant, a mital valve flap thats a little too long and bows slightly, and a stronger than normal connection to I think it was the sinus nerve? Or am I thinking of the Vagus nerve? The thing that controls heart rythm.
For anyone confused, "Pre-workout" is apparently a supplement that you take well, pre-workout, which is basically energy drink + other stuff. I was trying to figure out why an energy drink before a workout was bad. So dude was basically mixing caffeine with more caffeine.
My heart rate hit 240 when I went into SVT. That was a weird feeling. Didn't hurt, but my vision started going white after 10 minutes, and the flutter felt like my shirt was going to fly off. Thank God for CathLab.
Shit! Never had my vision go *white*. I've had it go black and I've seen the stars, but if my vision goes white I'm about to say "Father into your hands I commend my spirit, if anyone can hear me tell my family I love them."
I have SVT too and that's about what I hit too. It went on for 6 hours while I was working (at a doctor's office) because he insisted it was probably anxiety 🙄 another nurse finally got sick of it and just did and EKG and brought it too him in a room with a pt. He walked out and told me we can either call an ambulance or have one of the girls here drive you over to the ER (it was basically across the street) Like mofo you had me dealing with this for 6 hrs!! 😑 Ended up having to get adenosine twice 🥲 12/10 do not recommend lol
@@adhdhamster Same, I have SVT as well, I don't get blurred vision or anything like that, my heart just beats extremely fast out of rhythm. Sometimes its only a few minutes, but one time in high school it went all night. Had to try to sleep with my chest just pounding.
This is why people should stop giving an F for some company that only sees you as an easy replaceable number.. keep job hopping people! Your life and health is far more important than any job ever!
Very glad my work is understanding of medical issues. I was working at camp this summer, and during a long outdoor activity I started to feel quite faint. Told my boss he needed to take over with the kids cause I was feeling so poorly and he was like "It's OK, I got this, go inside, cool off, and get checked out at the nurse's office." Nurse figured I got heat exhation. I felt really bad that I basically had to stop doing my job an hour early, but the higher ups were just like "No, you had to take care of yourself, that comes first!"
Dude I work at a summer camp who practically did the same thing for me, although my issue was electrolyte depletion. I love it when people are actual humans
Damn that's sounds nice. I worked at a charcoal plant till they recently layed me off, so glad that happened. Someone shut the door to an enclosed space I was in, cause some corporate asshat was coming thru and they wanted it to look nice. Started feeling dizzy from lighter fluid fumes from instant light charcoal, walked out to find the door shut, no oxygen. When I went to the on site nurse I was blatantly accused of taking drugs. I'm 19 and don't even drink much. Ended up having damage to my throat and lungs.
In my country this is the norm. If you tell your boss that you're not feeling well, and they say something that isn't along the lines of "do you want the day off?", they could lose their job for that. Same with calling off sick from work. you don't even need to call them, you can just text, and all they're allowed to say is "feel better". They don't even ask you when do you feel like you could get back to work, they'll usually just call a couple of days later to ask you if you're feeling any better, and if you say "yes", then they'll ask you if you feel well enough to come back to work this week.
@@asingularkriegsman3316hope you sued. My dad worked at a plant where there was some type of safety device in use for some reason I don't remember. They wanted him to remove the device. He wouldn't do it. If he would have done what they said, he would have killed somebody. He also saved the plant from a fire and they were mad at him that he didn't refill the extinguisher.
I’m in construction. I can confirm that a lot of us run on lots of energy drinks, and if we get hurt, most of our bosses are concerned about us getting back to work immediately
Rules for stupid people (not derogatory I mean this categorically) 1. If a doctor is conducting a test and their machine starts going off like crazy, it's bad. 2. Doctors can't snitch to the cops. Unless you tell the doctor you intend to kill people, they literally aren't allowed to snitch. 3. Don't be afraid to ask a question(s). No, your question probably isn't the dumbest question the doc has heard. It's better to know than not to. Thank you from coming to my Medtalk.
Wish to add to this list If a doctor asks you if you are taking anything, be truthful. If not, whatever you are taking whether it’s an antibiotic or an illegal substance doctor needs to know because it could have a terrible reaction to other medications or might be causing your problems to begin with.
if I remember correctly it was VTAC that my father was experiencing on the night we took him to the hospital. I remember sitting at the foot of his ER bed watching the heart monitor go from 90-something to about 200 in under a minute. It was terrifying and he nearly died, but thanks to the ambulance crew that listened to my mom and sister and I and took him to the hospital and the hospital’s amazing staff, he’s still with us nearly a year later.
"my back hurts" "That's because your kidneys are failing, your liver has ceased to exist, and your heart rate is faster than my monitor's refresh rate"
My mom recently began having heart problems like this. First time it happened she thought maybe our pulse ox was going crazy cause it was bouncing back and forth from 80 to 240. She had me check her pulse and I had to say, "Nope, it's right. I can't even count as fast as your heart is beating. Time to call the ambulance." They've got it under control with meds now but it was pretty wild.
my step dad will drink crazy amounts of energy drinks when he's driving. he says it has no effect on him, whereas sometimes I'll drink a glass of tea and shake. truckers have got it rough man
@@scissor_raceEveryone chooses what job to work… I just hope they take a moment to watch their health. They could easily end themselves, and others, by combining one too many of these, suffering a major heart attack while on the road.
"Sir, do you have a wife?" "Yes?" "Have you ever tried vibrators?" "Uh, yes, idk how that correlates though" "Well, a heart shouldn't be a vibrator, that is the problem"
I was in an accident where I died for a second, came back to life, helicopters flying over, radio announcing the accident, on t.v. - call into work, IN THE VAN, not yet removed from it - "so are you coming in?" - turn on your tv and tell me am i coming in - "so you'll be in tomorrow?" - i'm going to the hospital
